Hofstra University Law School, J.D., 1975
Queens College, City of New York, B.A., 1972

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Second Department Appellate Division 10th Judicial District Grievance Committee Chair New York State Bar Association, Sustaining Member, Real Estate Financing Committee Nassau County Bar Association, Real Property Committee, Commercial Litigation Committee, Of Counsel Mentor Program Nassau County District Court Arbitration Panel Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York Nassau Suffolk Law Services Advisory Council Suffolk County Bar Association

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New York State Federal Court, Eastern & Southern Districts of New York Second Circuit Court of AppealsUnited States Tax CourtUnited States Supreme Court

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Abraham B. Krieger concentrates his practice in the area of the Real Estate Law at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. N.Y. Mr. Krieger’s practice, where he served as Chair of the Real Estate Department for six years, includes representing businesses and individuals in commercial and residential real estate lending, sale, and lease transactions and real estate, lease and commercial litigation. An integral part of his practice includes representing commercial lenders and borrowers on real estate financing transactions and title insurance companies on defending fee title and mortgage validity and enforceability claims.

Lakeland Bank v. Neziri, 2015, Richmond County Supreme Court favorable decision on enforceability of equitable mortgage signed by 2 of 4 record owners

Mr. Krieger has been named to the New York Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in New York from 2013-2016. In March 2012, Mr. Krieger was appointed to the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District and in 2013 was appointed as its Chairman representing the 10th Judicial District, where he serves as Chair through the 2017 term. He has served on the NYSBA Real Property Section Executive Committee and its Subcommittees on Professional Conduct, and Due Diligence Lease Checklists and currently serves on the Real Property Financing Committee. He has been appointed as an Expert Witness and Mediator in various real estate litigations by appointment of the Federal District Court, NYS Supreme and District Courts. He has served as Receiver and counsel to Receiver on major Nassau, Suffolk, Queens County and Federal Court foreclosures. He received the Nassau Suffolk Law Services Pro Bono Attorney of the Month (January 2000), and Nassau County Bar’s Pro Bono Award, Volunteers Lawyers Project (2001). In 2008 through 2016, Mr. Krieger was recognized in the Long Island Business News Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate Law, and in LIBN’s Ones to Watch in Commercial Real Estate Law. He is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level in professional excellence, and recognized by Long Island Pulse Magazine in 2010 through 2015, as one of the region’s “Top Legal Eagles”. Mr. Krieger was named a 2015 Access to Justice Pro Bono Provider by the Nassau County Bar. He also serves as a mentor in the NCBA’s Call-A-Colleague program. Mr. Krieger is a frequent lecturer on real estate, professional conduct and Escrow management.

Mr. Krieger has served as an adjunct Professor in the Real Estate Department at Hofstra University School of Law and is a current Contributing Editor of the NYSBA publication on Commercial Leasing, authoring the chapter on the ‘Commercial Lease Rider.’ He has published numerous legal and scholarly articles throughout his career in The Nassau Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, Real Property Law Journal, and The ISLA Journal of International and Comparative Law on “The Holocaust as Catalyst for International Justice.”. In March 2009, Mr. Krieger along with other members of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) , met in New York with the German Ambassador to the United Nations to discuss human rights issues.

Mr. Krieger is highly involved in his community and served for many years on the Great Neck Chambers of Commerce Executive Board and currently is a contributing supporter of the JCC Performance music programs in NYC. For 37 years, he served as Counsel to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. He also served for 10 years on the Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In January of 2009, Mr. Krieger traveled to Jerusalem to participate in the 13th Plenary of the WJC. While there, Mr. Krieger joined 400 affiliated international Jewish delegates representing Jewish communities in over 80 countries and organizations. In November of 2008, he presented at the Nassau County Bar to the Yashar, Attorneys’ and Judges’ Chapter of Hadassah of Nassau County on “Stories of Hope and Survival as Told By a Child of Survivors,” recounting personal and professional perspectives. In the summer of 2002, he served at the University of Berlin, on the Wannsee Conference Advisory Committee on The Corruption of the Rule of Law in Germany.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Krieger was in private practice since 1976. From 1995 until 2002, Mr. Krieger was senior partner in a Great Neck-based law firm and also a partner in a New York City firm of in which he was a principal partner from 1989-1993. Mr. Krieger served as General Counsel to Safeco Title Insurance Company of New York from 1985-1988 and Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Law at Baruch College, City University of New York from 1985-1990.